[mythtv-users] not a good sign?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tuesday 23 November 2004 03:26, David Whyte wrote:
> I noticed I was having this problem tonight too, then realised I had
> tried to start as the user 'myth' and not as 'root'.  When I do an ls
> in the 'recordings' dir, the permissions are set to 755 for the
> directory itself and 644 for the files it contains.  All are owned by
> root.root.
>
> Can I simply chown the whole myth directory to myth.myth and
> everything will work fine?   I don't want to run as root (as I have
> heard this is bad m'kay) but nor do I want to screw anything up at
> this stage.

The files do indeed need to be owned by whatever user is the backend is 
running as (or at least, the user needs full r/w). You're using Fedora Core, 
yes/no? The way RH chowns devices based on the logged in user makes it 
impractical to run the backend as anything but root, without doing some 
hacking. This has been covered in the past, please search the archives for 
details.

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
jcw at wilsonet.com

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